UK energy market regulator Ofgem is inviting bids to bring forward investment in new electricity interconnectors under its ‘cap and floor’ revenue regime.
The UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has awarded planning consent for Vattenfall’s Norfolk Boreas offshore wind farm. The wind farm, which could produce enough electricity to power almost 2 million UK homes, will also bring significant community and skills investment
Japan has launched an auction to select the developer of up to 356 MW of offshore wind capacity in the Happo-Noshiro zone off Akita prefecture. The auction opened on Friday, 10 December, and the deadline to submit bids for the development of projects at the Happo-Noshiro zone is 10 June 2022. The wi
A Denmark-based developer has decided to cancel an offshore wind project after not managing to find a turbine model that would fit the project’s original design parameters. This is an excerpt from a Premium article published on our sister site Offshore Energy. You can read the original article by cl
RWE Renewables has, through its Polish subsidiary Baltic Trade & Invest Sp. z o.o., received a positive decision by the regional Director for Environmental Protection in Szczecin for the F.E.W. Baltic II offshore wind farm. This decision specifies the environmental conditions for the realisation of
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has made available nearly USD 1.3 million to support redevelopment data collection in the New York Bight Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) to facilitate responsible offshore wind development.
Sydney-based Nexsphere, formerly known as Brookvale Energy, has revealed plans to build an offshore wind farm in Bass Strait off Tasmania with a capacity of between 500 MW and 1,000 MW. The project is planned to be built in phases which would come online from 2026 onwards. The Tasmanian Liberal Gove
The Finnish government’s Committee on Economic Policy has approved a proposal for an auction model to be applied to the leasing of public water areas controlled by Metsähallitus for the development of offshore wind farms. The first auction is expected to take place in 2023–2024 and will cover three
Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has published a localisation policy for the first phase of its Round 3 offshore wind tenders which will be procuring project development for wind farms scheduled to go online from 2026 to 2035, with the first phase to be held for projects that will be put
The Dutch State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, has announced the start of spatial planning procedures for cable routes that would connect more than 10 GW of the country’s planned additional offshore wind capacity to the national grid. In a letter sent th
The government of Denmark and several political parties have agreed to add up to 3 GW of new offshore wind capacity to be developed before 2030 as part of the Finance Act 2022. According to the green sub-agreement to the Finance Act 2022, 2 GW of offshore wind capacity must be offered for developmen
OX2 has submitted a permit application under the Act on Sweden’s Exclusive Economic Zone to construct an offshore wind farm in the Swedish economic zone off the coast of Falkenberg and Varberg. The wind farm is called Galatea-Galene and is divided into two sub-areas. Galatea is located about 25 kilo
Spain’s Greenalia has obtained the authorization in terms of aeronautical easements by AESA (State Aviation Safety Agency) for the assembly of four 12.4 MW wind turbines at the Gofio floating wind farm off the Gran Canaria. With this permit, Greenalia has the approval for Gofio floating offshore win
The Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities and the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) have announced that Thor Wind Farm I/S (owned by RWE AG, RWE Renewables GmbH, and RWE Renewables Management UK Limited) has won the tender for the 1,000 MW Thor project, Denmark’s largest offshore wind farm to da
